Putting it Together: Financing Comprehensive Services in Child Care and Early Education

On April 17, 2013, Stephanie Schmit and Christine Johnson-Staub presented Putting it Together: Financing Comprehensive Services in Child Care and Early Education at the Oklahoma Smart Start Conference. They discussed how states have used a variety of federal funding streams, including the Maternal and Child Health Block Grant, Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems funds and Medicaid funds, to finance services including child care health consultants, developmental screening, and preventive health outreach in child care settings.